Words |
Parts of Speech |
Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
noctivagation |
noun |
A roving or going about in the night. |
no-man’s land |
|
A space amidships used to keep blocks, ropes, etc.; a space on a ship belonging to no one in particular to care for., Fig.: An unclaimed space or time. |
nomenclatress |
noun |
A female nomenclator. |
nomenclatural |
adjective |
Pertaining or according to a nomenclature. |
nonacceptance |
noun |
A neglect or refusal to accept. |
nonaerobiotic |
adjective |
Capable of living without atmospheric oxygen; anaerobiotic. |
nonalienation |
noun |
Failure to alienate; also, the state of not being alienated. |
nonappearance |
noun |
Default of apperance, as in court, to prosecute or defend; failure to appear. |
non assumpsit |
|
The general plea or denial in an action of assumpsit. |
nonattendance |
noun |
A failure to attend; omission of attendance; nonappearance. |
nonbituminous |
adjective |
Containing no bitumen; not bituminous. |
noncoincident |
adjective |
Not coincident. |
noncompletion |
noun |
Lack of completion; failure to complete. |
noncompliance |
noun |
Neglect of compliance; failure to comply. |
nonconcluding |
adjective |
Not concluding. |
noncondensing |
adjective |
Not condensing; discharging the steam from the cylinder at a pressure nearly equal to or above that of the atmosphere and not into a condenser. |
nonconducting |
adjective |
Not conducting; not transmitting a fluid or force; thus, in electricity, wax is a nonconducting substance. |
nonconduction |
noun |
The quality of not being able to conduct or transmit; failure to conduct. |
nonconforming |
adjective |
Not conforming; declining conformity; especially, not conforming to the established church of a country. |
nonconformist |
noun |
One who does not conform to an established church; especially, one who does not conform to the established church of England; a dissenter. |
nonconformity |
noun |
Neglect or failure of conformity; especially, in England, the neglect or refusal to unite with the established church in its rites and modes of worship. |
noncontagious |
adjective |
Not contagious; not catching; not communicable by contact. |
nondeposition |
noun |
A failure to deposit or throw down. |
nonelectrical |
adjective |
Not electric; conducting electricity. |
nonemphatical |
adjective |
Having no emphasis; unemphatic. |
non-episcopal |
adjective |
Not Episcopal; not pertaining to the Episcopal church or system. |
noninhabitant |
noun |
One who is not an inhabitant; a stranger; a foreigner; a nonresident. |
nonlimitation |
noun |
Want of limitation; failure to limit. |
nonmedullated |
adjective |
Not medullated; (Anat.) without a medulla or marrow, or without a medullary sheath; as, a nonmedullated nerve fiber. |
nonmembership |
noun |
State of not being a member. |
nonnitrognous |
adjective |
Devoid of nitrogen; as, a nonnitrogenous principle; a nonnitrogenous food. See the Note under Food, n., 1. |
nonobservance |
noun |
Neglect or failure to observe or fulfill. |
nonproduction |
noun |
A failure to produce or exhibit. |
nonproficient |
noun |
One who has failed to become proficient. |
nonregardance |
noun |
Want of due regard; disregard; slight. |
nonresistance |
noun |
The principles or practice of a nonresistant; passive obedience; submission to authority, power, oppression, or violence without opposition. |
nonsubmission |
noun |
Want of submission; failure or refusal to submit. |
nonsubmissive |
adjective |
Not submissive. |
nonuniformist |
noun |
One who believes that past changes in the structure of the earth have proceeded from cataclysms or causes more violent than are now operating; — called also nonuniformitarian. |
nonvernacular |
adjective |
Not vernacular. |
normalization |
noun |
Reduction to a standard or normal state. |
northeasterly |
adjective |
Pertaining to the northeast; toward the northeast, or coming from the northeast., Toward the northeast. |
northeastward |
adverb |
Alt. of Northeastwardly |
northerliness |
noun |
The quality or state of being northerly; direction toward the north. |
northwesterly |
adjective |
Toward the northwest, or from the northwest. |
northwestward |
adverb |
Alt. of Northwestwardly |